Introduction. Place, perspective, and power : interpreting September 11 / Eric Hershberg and Kevin W. Moore
Pt. I. Terrorism, security, and values
Ethics and efficacy of political terrorism / Achin Vanaik
Good muslim, bad muslim : a political perspective on culture and terrorism / Mahmood Mamdani
Terrorism and freedom : an outside view / Luis Rubio
Reassuring and protecting : internal security implications of French participation in the coalition against terrorism / Didier Bigo
Pt. II. Future international order
Living with the hegemon : European dilemmas / William Wallace
After balance-of-powers diplmacy, globalization's politics / Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira
September 11, security, and the new postliberal politics of fear / Kanishka Jayasuriya.

Aftershock(s) : regional perspectives
Mistake, farce, or calamity? : Pakistan and its tryst with history / Kamran Asdar Ali
Can rational analysis break a taboo? : a Middle Eastern perspective / Said Amir Arjomand
Change and continuity in hemispheric affairs : Latin America after September 11 / Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín, Eric Hershberg, and Monica Hirst
Pt. IV. Intersection of religion and politics
Muslims and the politics of multiculturalism in Britain / Tariq Modood
Reach of transnationalism / Riva Kastoryano
State and faith : secular values in Asia and the West / Wang Gungwu.